Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to take the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hoped that medical men would be attracted to take the College course , and then be commissioned as veterinary surgeons in the cavalry . |
| 2 | CAN ANYBODY be expected to take the Deputy Director of Wirral Social Services seriously when he suggests that feeding curry to toddlers will help them counteract the evils of racism ? |
| 3 | There are those , however , who find it objectionable that one person should ever be permitted to take the life of another . |
| 4 | Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it . |
| 5 | While it might help submarines to detect fishing activity , it should not be seen to take the onus of avoiding fishing vessels away from submarines . |
| 6 | The undertaker will , as a rule , be instructed to take the body straight to his premises and screw the lid down , firmly and finally . |
| 7 | Porcelain can also be TL tested , but it is such a hard ceramic that a drill can not be used to take the sample because of the heat generated and the spurious luminescence signals produced . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 9 | you could n't be bothered to take the egg yolk out of the egg white ? |
| 10 | When someone dies at home and the person is to be buried , the funeral director can be called to take the body to a chapel of rest as soon as a doctor has certified the death . |
| 11 | The words ‘ deliverable state ’ are defined in section 61(5) as , goods ‘ in such a state that the buyer would under the contract be bound to take the delivery of them . |
| 12 | In such a case he would be bound to take the woman as he found her , if sued by her , and her pregnancy would be just as much a a physical condition in his victim as would be the case of a person having an eggshell skull . |
| 13 | The butt end of the pike was fitted with an iron shoe which could be grounded to take the shock of a charge , and the metal strips along the shaft ( sometimes as much as 20 feet long though usually around 10 feet ) acted as protection against sword cuts . |
| 14 | Dummy records can be provided to take the place of this space , by placing them where additions are expected , or in a pre-determined pattern throughout the file . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the jury can be asked to take the plaintiff 's own conduct into account in reducing damages — if he has taken steps to refute the allegations publicly , or has been cleared of them after a publicised enquiry , or has obtained retractions and damages from other publications , his wounds may be considered to have partially healed . |
| 16 | His Protestant voice told the nation that Lady Thatcher might speak in Thursday 's debate on race , for that was what it was really all about or , on the other hand , she might be asked to take the chair for John Major 's Leader 's address on the Friday afternoon . |
| 17 | You should then find that one of the buds near the break point becomes dominant over the others and can be trained to take the place of the original leader . |
| 18 | She should be encouraged to take the initiative in solving problems of care , always with the sympathetic support of the clinical teacher . |
| 19 | Families can be encouraged to take the relative out for the day for as long as that can be managed , and to carry on visiting at least weekly . |
| 20 | The idea of settling Jews in Palestine , the British Foreign Office cabled two of its ambassadors in 1916 , ‘ might be made far more attractive to the majority of Jews if it held out to them the prospect that when in course of time the Jewish colonists in Palestine grew strong enough to cope with the Arab population they may be allowed to take the management of the internal affairs of Palestine … into their own hands … |
| 21 | As has been noted , it was he who proposed that the chiefs should be required to take the oath of allegiance , he who decreed that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid , and he who prepared the instructions for the excess of vengeance against the clan . |
| 22 | Looking into the future , Keener wonders whether a new music carrier will be required to take the industry forward . |